The chief of Lamogi, Rwot Martin Otinga Otto Yai Otuka has asked his subjects to vote for President Yoweri Museveni in the 2016 elections.
Otinga said this Friday at his home in Guru- Guru village, shortly after receiving a donation of a car from the president.
The Lamogi chief said Museveni is the only one who has kept his pledge to develop the Lamogi chiefdom.
Museveni’s donation- a brand new Mitsubishi Pajero was handed over to the chief by NRM’s flag bearer for the Amuru woman parliamentary seat, Francesca Amongin Okili. Okili said she was handing over the car on behalf of the president.
“We requested for it [car] in March this year, and here it has come,’’ an excited Otinga said.
‘‘Mr Museveni has also promised many other developments in the area including construction of a Technical school.”
The Lamogi chief said the president had told him that if his subjects vote for the NRM in the elections more gifts and development projects will come to Lamogi.
Among the projects the president has promised the people of Lamogi, according to the chief, is a technical school and turning the hill where the Lamogi people resisted British rule in 1911 into a tourism site to generate local revenue for the community.
At the handover event of the car which took place at his home, Otinga said he would use the vehicle to supervise primary schools in Lamogi to help improve their performance in the primary leaving examinations.
“I want to urge my subjects to persuade their children to study. They should leave this issue of hunting edible rats and bats and concentrate on school to uplift our area.”
The responsibility of supervising schools in any district falls under the docket of the district education officer and other elected district leaders like the Chairman and the secretary of education.
Former Amuru Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Nabinson Kidega, who presided over the function, said there is nothing wrong with the clan head heaping praise and urging his subjects to vote for Museveni.
Kilak County Member of Parliament Gilbert Olanya who has had run-ins with the president lauded him for the donation to the chief.
“I believe the vehicle will help the Chief in meeting with his subjects and monitoring cultural activities,’’ Olanya said before quickly adding ‘‘ the vehicle should not be turned for politics in cases where the chief openly starts rallying his subjects to support Mr Museveni because the vehicle was purchased with tax payers’ money not the president’s.”
President Museveni is known for donating vehicles and even money to cultural and religious leaders, especially when elections are approaching.
His critics say the vehicles and cash are meant to buy support from key religious and cultural leaders.
In April this year, Museveni donated a car to the Kabaka of Buganda on his 60th birthday.
By Denis Otim
2 Comments
Your Mitsubishi Pajero is to brive you. Will they all share your Pajero?
Do not let ordinary people who gain nothing suffer because you got a new Pajero
You eat well sleep well and have money to go to affordable hospital. They have so sell their food staff goats and cows to afford that. Let them choose who they want to lead and give them better services.
Rwot Otinga , it is the responsibility of any government in power(good government for that matter) to deliver Service to all it’s citizens regardless of tribe, religion, culture, politcal affiliation and social status. That Car you now have is government property bought with taxpayers Money. It is not Museveni’s Money. The People of Lamogi have got the right to vote in power which ever candidate they wish to vote for. Please do not mislead them.